8 OCTOBER 1977, page 23

Prison Verse

Alex de Jonge Prussian Nights Alexander Solzhenitsyn trans Robert Conquest (Collins and Harvill £3.75Z) Solzhenitsyn composed Prussian Nights in a labour camp in the late 1940s.......

Modern Life, At Last

Peter Ackroyd Enemies Giles Gordon (Harvester Press £4.50) After much wasted effort it's now become apparent that 'modernism' is a concept which, like Burke's 'sublime' or......